I want to re-Judaize Catholicism.

In many parts of the Protestant movement, there's a desire to de-Judaize the operation.

Catholicism lifts it up.

It doesn't want to leave it behind.

Christ is the yes to all the promises made to Israel.

Here we are on the Sunday special with Bishop Robert Barron author of arguing religion.

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I wanted to be a baseball player. So I was a Cub fan from Chicago. I wanted to be a shortstop for the Cubs till I was about 14. And when I was 14, I'm in high school religion class, and one of the professors taught us one of Thomas Aquinas' arguments for God's existence.

And I'm sure no other kid in the room was the least been affected by it, but for some reason, it affected me.

I went home, went to the library, back in the day when we actually went to libraries and got books out.

And I got Mortimer Adler's, you know, the great book series, and I found the one on Thomas Aquinas,

and then read that section, understanding almost none of it.

But it started me, honestly, on a path I never left.

It just sort of set my mind on fire.

And the priesthood came, you know, further down the pike,

but it started then when I was 14.

And baseball is still an interest of

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